Posted on 12/23/2022 7:52:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A Pennsylvania city treasurer has been charged by the attorney general’s office for absconding with more than $100,000 of taxpayer money.
Uniontown city Treasurer Antoinette Hodge is accused of stealing almost $107,000 in 2020-2021 while serving as an elected official.
“The defendant is a public official entrusted to oversee city funds with integrity and accountability,” said Attorney General Josh Shapiro in a press release. “Instead, she is accused of stealing from taxpayers to enrich herself. My Office will investigate and prosecute anyone who abuses their position of power for their own financial gain.”
City Council kicked off an investigation in 2021 after a dozen taxpayers were warned of being delinquent in paying, though they already paid their taxes.
The money came from city and school tax revenues, among other sources.
Hodge concentrated power of the three-person treasurer’s office into her hands, allowing the theft to go on while a deputy treasurer and a clerk remained unaware.
“Staff at the City’s Treasurer’s Office testified that various changes were made under Hodge’s leadership, including Hodge taking over filling out deposit slips, taking over as the sole person reviewing the tax account information, and eliminating other checks and balances within the Treasurer’s Office,” the release noted.
The missing money went toward “an expensive gambling habit” and far-flung trips.
“The investigation further determined that, during this time period, Hodge took numerous costly vacations and spent tens of thousands of dollars each year on gambling,” the release noted.
Those vacations included trips to Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Disney World. Hodge had also planned another one, this time to Paris.
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She’s just lookin’ for a party crowd....
Uh-huh.
Well, come on! She wanted to go on vacation!
It’s OK because she’s a Democrat. Their $#*+ doesn’t stink.
Imagine being the people who got their money stolen by this grifter; she won’t make enough over the rest of her days to cover $107,000.
Who does she think she is a Biden clan member.
She’s a rank amateur compared to the criminal Democrats and Republicans in DC.
The voters there got what they deserved.
What’s the problem? We give that much tax payer cash to the Ukraine in an hour.
I used to believe that (when the people filling elected positions genuinely won elections); I don’t believe that anymore (because they don’t win valid elections).
A down payment on her reparations.
If she had given half her theft to corrupt democrats she could have kept the scam going for years.
And when caught she could bail out to live in a mansion with Mommy and Daddy. Like little Bernie Madoff...
Or Pennsylvania Senator-Elect John Fetterman. Aka “Lurch”.
The rest of the money she just squandered.
Believe it or not this is pocket change. There was someone who worked in the University of California system a few years ago that stole two and a half million.
You're right. So many useless democrats with wealthy overindulgent "elite" parents.
Most politicians should only serve two terms, the second one in prison.
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